Mind-Body Skills Groups for Behavioral and Emotional Problems in War-Traumatized Male Adolescents in Gaza
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 115
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this study is to determine whether war-traumatize male adolescents with behavioral and emotional problems who participate in mind-body skills groups will have improvement in behavioral and emotional problems, aggression, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, compared to a wait list control group.
详细描述
Mind-body skills incorporate meditation, guided imagery, breathing techniques, autogenic training, biofeedback, genograms, and self-expression through words, drawings, and movement in a small group setting. These groups have been used in war-traumatize populations in Kosovo, Gaza and the United States. This study will be investigating the effect of the mind-body skills groups on boys with behavioral and emotional problem at a high school in Gaza to determine if there is improvement in behavioral and emotional problems, aggression, and posttraumatic stress disorder. The results will be compared to a control high school with boys who will not be attending mind-body skills groups and who have experienced similar levels of trauma and also have behavioral and emotional problems.
The mind-body skills groups will be held for 2 hours once a week for 10 weeks and then once a month for 10 months. Measures will be taken at baseline, after the 10 week mind-body skills group program and again at 10 month follow-up.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 14 Years 至 17 Years（Child）
- 性别
- Male
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Criteria for eligibility for the study will include having a baseline self-reported score of 18 points or higher on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire which indicates high to very high levels of emotional and behavioral problems
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
时间窗: Change from Baseline to 10 month follow-up after the program ends
The 25 item Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) measures behavioral and emotional function. These 25 items are divided into 5 subscales: emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity/inattention, peer relationship problems, and prosocial behavior. The SDQ is scored on a 3 point Likert-type scale with the responses "not true, "somewhat true", and "certainly true". Total SDQ scores include all the subscales except the prosocial scale.
次要结局
- The Aggression Questionnaire(Change from Baseline to 10 month follow-up after the program ends)
- PTSD Checklist-5(Change from Baseline to 10 month follow-up after the program ends)
研究者
James S. Gordon, M.D.
Director
The Center for Mind-Body Medicine